Lokpal: Retired judge Desai to head new Lokpal search panel | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday reconstituted the Lokpal search committee with Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai as chairperson and nine other members that include RAW ex-chief Samant Kumar Goel and former Mumbai police commissioner Ahmed Javed.

The committee recommends names to the Prime Minister-led selection committee for appointment as chief and members of the anti-corruption ombudsman.
Among the other members of the Lokpal search committee are former ISRO chairman A S Kiran Kumar, ex-chairperson of Prasar Bharati A Surya Prakash, information commissioner Heera Lal Samariya, former Chief Justice of Orissa high court Justice Kalpsh Satyendra Jhaveri, former SBI chief Arundhati Bhattacharya and former IAS officers Otem Dai and Rajiv Yadav.

Justice Desai had also headed the Lokpal search committee appointed in 2018.
The Lokpal has been working without its regular chief since Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghose completed his term on May 27 last year. Justice Pradip Kumar Mohanty, a judicial member of Lokpal, is currently the “acting chairperson”. At present, there are five members in the Lokpal. Two posts of judicial members and one of non-judicial member are vacant.